Defending champions retain title in fine style...

The heady scent of competition was in the air last night as the cream of Guernsey's media brains gathered at the Last Post to do battle in the Orchard Media Quiz 2012. Last year's champions Channel TV faced challengers from BBC Guernsey, Island FM and GBG Magazine as well as the Guernsey Press, habitual winners of this grand competition until Channel got their hands on the trophy for the first time last year.

Alas, all their efforts were to no avail as in the first round the Channel TV team romped away with an early lead they were to hold on to for the whole night, fending off a BBC Guernsey team who challenged strongly until the free bar got the better of them, and latterly the Guernsey Press news editors, who mounted a late run up the leaderboard thanks to a boost from their bonus round manifesto pledges (more on those later).

Congratulations to the CTV team - Rob Moore, Andy Richards, Gary Burgess, Gillian Mabbet, Melita Schiemann and Miles Plumley, they've taken the Orchard Trophy back to the studio where it will take pride of place, at least for the next year...